Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe

Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe
Author: Julia Martínez-Ariño
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030368343

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This volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective. The chapters combine both legal and sociological approaches. Coverage for each country includes historical background, current penitentiary organization, and recent changes or trends. In their exploration of legal aspects, the contributors look at such factors as the status of prison chaplains and regulations concerning religious practice and religious freedom. These include meals, prayers, and visits. The sociological analysis examines religious discrimination in prison, church-prison relations, conversion and proselytism, and more. The European coverage includes countries for which such information is seldom available. The book offers readers a better understanding of governance of religion in prisons. This text appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the field.

Religious Diversity in European Prisons

Religious Diversity in European Prisons
Author: Irene Becci
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-06-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319167782

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This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. Social scientists studying corrections have noted the important role that religious or spiritual practice can have on rehabilitation, particularly for inmates with coping with stress, mental health and substance abuse issues. In the past, the historical figure of the prison chaplain operated primarily in a Christian context, following primarily a Christian model. Increasingly, prison populations (inmates as well as employees) display diversity in their ethnic, cultural, religious and geographic backgrounds. As public institutions, prisons are compelled to uphold the human rights of their inmates, including religious freedom. Prisons face challenges in approaching religious plurality and secularism, and maintaining prisoners' legal rights to religious freedom. The contributions to this work present case studies that examine how prisons throughout Europe have approached challenges of religious diversity. Featuring contributions from the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain, this interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from social and political scientists, religion scholars and philosophers examining the role of religion and religious diversity in prison rehabilitation. It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, Human Rights, Public Policy, and Religious Studies.

Religion in Contemporary Europe

Religion in Contemporary Europe
Author: John Fulton
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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In this volume, leading academic authorities on the social analysis of religion examine its contemporary role in Europe. The book traces the shifting shape of European religion and reviews the interaction of theology and politics in shaping European cultural identity.

Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity

Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity
Author: Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2024-08-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1040131158

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Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity. As seen in world events, religion has not become irrelevant but more diverse, giving rise to a complex web of religion and belief minorities, together with intra-plural majorities. Nations seek ways to implement the ideal of freedom of religion, but as this book shows, whether East or West, in the global North or the South, there is no simple formalism for accommodating religious diversity. Different faith communities have competing needs and demands for the same social space, with tensions inevitably arising. This book highlights responses from liberal democracies which enshrine secularism into their constitutions to other constitutions where religion and ethnic identity are enshrined to prioritise their ethno-religious majority. Western and Asian countries encounter different obstacles and challenges. With analysis from 19 international scholars, the book explores different obstacles and responses to accommodation of religious minorities in a range of jurisdictions. In a globalised world, it will be invaluable for comparative legal scholars, for law and religion scholars, researchers and students, and decision-makers, e.g., governments, non-governmental organisations, and for those who seek to better understand the challenges of our time.

Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry

Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry
Author: Elizabeth Phillips
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1003858341

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This book explores how the themes and insights of official Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and broader Catholic social thought might illuminate, and be illuminated by, a deeper engagement with the context of prisons. What resources might Catholic social thought bring to pastoral work in prisons? And what might listening to the prison context bring to Catholic social thought? The volume includes constructive proposals for the relationship between CST and prison ministry, as well as critical questions about the role and shortcomings of prisons, CST, and chaplaincy. It contains contributions by scholars and practitioners of theology, criminology, and prison chaplaincy from the UK, US, and Ireland, and reflects on the inextricable relationship of social action and pastoral care in the work of prison ministry.

Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe

Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe
Author: Gert Pickel
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 353191989X

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Church and State in Contemporary Europe

Church and State in Contemporary Europe
Author: Zsolt Enyedi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135761418

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This volume represents an attempt in integrating a wide range of theoretically relevant issues into the identification and analysis of church-state patterns. Each chapter focuses on the analysis of a particular theme and its role in shaping, and/or being shaped by, church-state relations.

Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry

Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry
Author: Meins G.S. Coetsier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2022-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004523367

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In Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry Meins G.S. Coetsier offers a new account of Karl Rahner’s theological anthropology and the prison pastorate with a contemporary expansion for meaning, seeking an antidote to the suffering of those incarcerated with a “theology of empowerment.”

Religion and Law in Estonia

Religion and Law in Estonia
Author: Merilin Kiviorg
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9403541237

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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Estonia deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal parameters affecting the influence of religion in politics and public life. Also covered are legal positions on religion in such specific fields as church financing, labour and employment, and matrimonial and family law. A clear and comprehensive overview of relevant legislation and legal doctrine make the book an invaluable reference source and very useful guide. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to practitioners in the myriad instances where a law-related religious interest arises in Estonia. Academics and researchers will appreciate its value as a thorough but concise treatment of the legal aspects of diversity and multiculturalism in which religion plays such an important part.